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Theodore Pappas

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Theodore Pappas is Executive Editor and Chief Development Officer of Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published, anthologized, and discussed in assorted publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Spectator, History Magazine, the Wilson Quarterly, The New Yorker, the American Scholar, and Vanity Fair; and he has appeared multiple times on the NBC Today Show as well as on CNN, CBS Evening News, Fox News radio and television, NPR's All Things Considered, and BBC Radio.

Aug. 26, 2024

Hair and the American Presidency

In March 1778, while he was camped at Valley Forge, Commander in Chief George Washington sent a lock of his hair to the daughter of the New Jersey Governor. It wasn’t a romantic gift; rather, Washington was responding to a c…